Improved evaporator and still



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MARI; n, POWERS, or4 `PIKE coU-NTY, INDIANA.

ALetters PatentNo. 104,351, dated huw 14, 1870.

IMPRovEn nvAPoRAToR AND STILL.

The Schedule referred to irrv these Letters Patent andvmaking part ofthe same.

ence being hadto the accompanying drawing makinga part of thisspecification, in whichi Figure I is a perspective view ot' myinvention.

Figure II' isa sectional view of the same through y the line x x.

Figure III is atop or moved. i

Figure IV is a side view of a partition.

"lhe object of my invention is to provide an easy and cheap means ofutilizing that part of the juiceof sorghum which is now lostiu themanufacture of sorghum molasses by converting it into pure spirits clearof adult-eration:

plan 'View with the cover re- 'Io enable othersskllediu theart to makeand,

use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I havecarried it ont.

A represents the evaporating box; B, the cover for the same; and D, thestill-cash; all in position.

The letter a shows the space between the cover B and the box A, whichhas to be filled with any proper material for rendering the box'steam-tight.

.In the evaporatng box-A are placed a succession of partitions, b11,-.not`ched at one corner, as shown at c in Fig. IV.

The 'partitions are so arranged as to make these notches alternateiist'on one side and then on the other ofthe box A, and they are securedin 'position temporarily, so that they can he easily removedfrom thehox, and thus'enable the operator to make apple,v l peach, or sorghumbrandy without further trouble.

C represents an escape-chest placed ou the top of the cover B, throughwhich the vapor passes at the point e.V

D is the still-cask placed inany convenient position and connected totheevaporator by the Worm d.

In Fig. II, the letter r shows'the opening through the cover B toconnect with the opening ein the cscape-chest G.

mis au opening iu the bottom of the opposite side of the box A for thedischarge purposes.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

` An evaporator, constructed and arranged with a steam-tight cover, B,and removable partitions b, substantially as described.

" MARK H. TOWERS.

Witnesses J. HURT,

H Y 'SAMUEL X Rowns. 'mark'.

